Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America - Hardcover

Warren, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822938898 ISBN 13: 9780822938897

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A career biography of the anti-labor industrialist, drawing on personal and business papers from the previously restricted Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Analyzes key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry, and provides insights into Frick's relationships with contemporaries including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Elbert Gary. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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From the Back Cover:

Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century. Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalleled in American business history. Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitalism makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America.

About the Author:

Craig Colten hails from Louisiana and lived for ten years near the banks of the Mississippi River while attending college in Baton Rouge and teaching in New Orleans. Since completing his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1984 he has pursuedittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0822938898
• ISBN 13: 9780822938897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426